Sentence examples for specious thought from inspiring English sources

Based on Gandhi's depression and the self-destructive behavior of his son, Harilal, Dr. Ghaemi can go no further than this specious thought: "It is quite possible that others in the family have suffered the same illness".

The arguments against the idea are specious.

So I thought that was a specious argument.

At such moments, with the help of Coetzee's sensitivity to the uneven flow and counterflow of ideas, we can glimpse a mind moving among thoughts, some of them solid and argued for, some specious, some thrilling but fleeting, others irrational but suggestive.

The specious present is perhaps not really specious: the idea that it was specious depended on an idea that the real (nonspecious) present had to be instantaneous.

And all specious.

It's completely specious.

It was specious.

The reasoning is specious.

This is a specious argument.

This first appeal is specious.